Design Daze: July Events 2026
Design Daze Out: July Events 2026
This month, we’re balancing the brilliant sport with a little art, design and culture. Think brilliant beer, wavy walls, Hockney landscapes and one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Consider it your creative half-time.
London Craft Beer Festival
Designing beer is fun. You’re balancing accessibility with attitude, familiarity with flavour, and shelf appeal with distinction. But you can’t design a drinking experience without doing a little drinking. Purely professional, obviously.
London Craft Beer Festival returns to Southwark Park with more than 800 beers from over 100 breweries, bringing together local favourites and international standouts. We’ll be watching how brewers use identity, illustration, typography and tone to turn an increasingly crowded category into a riot of distinctive little worlds.
17–18 July
Southwark Park, London SE16
Serpentine Pavilion 2026: a serpentine by LANZA atelier
There’s something deeply satisfying about seeing a familiar material behave in a completely unfamiliar way. This year’s Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Mexico City-based LANZA atelier, turns the humble brick wall into something lighter, smarter and far more expressive.
Titled a serpentine, the structure takes its cue from the traditional English crinkle-crankle wall, whose curves create strength while using fewer bricks than a straight wall. It is a neat argument for design that does more with less. Shelter is created without enclosure, while columns, openings and a translucent roof invite in light, air and the surrounding landscape.
Until 25 October
Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens
Free
While you're there...
Following Hockney’s death in June, the exhibition has inevitably taken on a new significance. What began as a celebration of recent work now feels like a final invitation to see the world through his eyes: brighter, stranger and more worthy of attention.
At its centre is his monumental, 90-metre-long frieze capturing the changing seasons in Normandy, accompanied by new paintings created for the exhibition. A joyful and fitting tribute to an artist who never stopped looking, experimenting or reminding the rest of us to pay closer attention.
Until 23 August
Serpentine North, Kensington Gardens
Free
Ana Mendieta at The Tate Modern
Ana Mendieta is finally getting the scale of exhibition her work deserves.
This major Tate Modern show brings together performance, photography, film, painting and sculpture, revealing an artist whose work was visceral, experimental and far ahead of its time.
Of course, there is sadness in seeing that legacy recognised decades after her life was cut short. But here, the circumstances of her death no longer dominate. The art is firmly back at the centre.
15 July 2026–17 January 2027
Tate Modern, Bankside
